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Franklin Court: Exterior
1/6 · ExteriorPhoto: NPS photo · Public domain · source
Franklin Court: Exterior · Outline of Benjamin Franklin's home in Philadelphia, PA (in Franklin Court)
2/6 · Exterior · Outline of Benjamin Franklin's home in Philadelphia, PA (in Franklin Court)Photo: Ben Franske · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Franklin Court: Exterior
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Franklin Court: Interior
4/6 · InteriorPhoto: National Park Service Digital Image Archives · Public domain · source
Franklin Court: Interior
5/6 · InteriorPhoto: National Park Service · Public domain · source
Franklin Court: Interior
6/6 · InteriorPhoto: National Park Service · Public domain · source
Photo 1: ExteriorPhoto 2: Exterior · Outline of Benjamin Franklin's home in Philadelphia, PA (in Franklin Court)Photo 3: ExteriorPhoto 4: InteriorPhoto 5: InteriorPhoto 6: Interior

Memorial · Postmodernism

Franklin Court

Venturi and Rauch (Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown) · Philadelphia, United States · 1976

Key featuresWhite steel 'ghost' frames trace Franklin's vanished house and print shop above an underground museum.

Architect
Venturi and Rauch (Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown)
Place
Philadelphia, United States
Year
1976
Typology
Memorial
Movement
Postmodernism
Region
Americas
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